Socrates & Plato's Philosophy - Myles Burnyeat & Bryan Magee (1987)

In this program, Myles Burnyeat discusses the thought of Socrates and Plato with Bryan Magee. This is the first episode in the 1987 series on the Great Philosophers. The rest in the series can be found here:    • The Great Philosophers with Bryan Mag...  

00:00 Introduction
04:07 Socrates’ Death
07:32 The Socratic Method
09:55 Doctrines of Socrates
13:35 The Socratic Question
16:28 Learning as Recollection
21:19 Plato's Theory of Forms
25:32 Literary Value of Middle Dialogues
27:04 The Republic
29:44 Later Dialogues
32:35 The Timaeus
35:45 Relation to the Republic
38:53 Theaetetus & Knowledge
41:31 Plato’s Influence

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